Gabriel Said Reynolds

Last updated

Gabriel Said Reynolds is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology and assistant professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame. [1] His scholarship focuses on World Religions and World Church, History of Christianity, Qur'anic Studies, Origins of Islam, and Muslim-Christian relations. [1] [2]

Contents

Biography

Gabriel Said Reynolds obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Yale University. [1] In 2012-2013 he directed “The Qurʾān Seminar” alongside Mehdi Azaiez, a year-long collaborative project dedicated to encouraging dialogue among scholars of the Quran, the acts of which appeared as The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary. [1] [3] In 2016-2017 he directed the research project Un Dieu de vengeance et de miséricorde: Sur la théologie coranique en relation avec les traditions juive et chrétienne at the Fondation Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes in France. [2] Reynolds currently serves as CEO of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), [2] and is also a regular contributor to Notre Dame's World Religions and World Church podcast: Minding Scripture. [1]

In 2008 he was the editor for The Qur'an in its Historical Context; essays included his own introduction, "Qur'anic Studies and its Controversies". [4] In August 2015 the Times Literary Supplement published Variant Readings: The Birmingham Qur'an in The Context of Debate on Islamic Origins, a scholarly commentary of Reynolds about the discovery and analysis of the Birmingham Quran and its relations with other ancient Quranic manuscripts. [5] In 2018 he has overseen commentaries on such aspects of Islam as the Nephilim in The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary. [6] In 2020 he wrote Allah: God in the Qurʾān, a scholarly treatise on the conception of God in Islam and its distinguishing features in Islamic theology, with a comparison between the portrayals of the Abrahamic god in the Bible and the Quran, respectively. [7]

Publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iblis</span> Devil-like figure in Islam

Iblis, alternatively known as Eblīs, is the leader of the devils in Islam. According to the Quran, Iblis was thrown out of heaven, after he refused to prostrate himself before Adam. Regarding the origin and nature of Iblis, there are two different viewpoints.

Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd-al-Ḥayy ibn Żaḥḥāk b. Maḥmūd Gardīzī, better known as Gardizi (گردیزی), was an 11th-century Persian historian and official, who is notable for having written the Zayn al-akhbar, one of the earliest history books written in New Persian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Angels in Islam</span> Angels in the Islamic tradition

In Islam, angels are believed to be heavenly beings, created from a luminous origin by God. The Quran is the principal source for the Islamic concept of angels, but more extensive features of angels appear in hadith literature, Mi'raj literature, Islamic exegesis, theology, philosophy, and mysticism.

Lak is a Kurdish tribe native to Western Iran. They speak Laki, which is considered a Kurdish dialect by most linguists.

The ten to whom Paradise was promised were ten early Muslims to whom, according to Sunni Islamic tradition, the Islamic prophet Muhammad had promised Paradise.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manouba</span> Place in Manouba Governorate, Tunisia

Manouba is a city in north-eastern Tunisia, and is part the metropolitan area of Tunis, also called "Grand Tunis". It is located at the west of Tunis city center at around 36°48′28″N10°6′4″E. It is the capital city of Manouba Governorate.

Dawud, or David, is considered a prophet and messenger of God (Allah) in Islam, as well as a righteous, divinely-anointed monarch of the United Kingdom of Israel. Additionally, Muslims also honor David for having received the divine revelation of the Zabur (Psalms).

Abū al-Walīd ‘Abd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Naṣr ibn al-Faraḍī al-Azdī al-Qurṭubī , best known as Ibn al-Faraḍī, was an Andalusian historian, chiefly known for his Tarikh ulama al-Andalus, a biographical dictionary about religious scholars from al-Andalus. He was a faqīh (jurist) and a muhaddith.

The Azariqa were an extremist branch of Khawarij, who followed the leadership of Nafi ibn al-Azraq al-Hanafi. Adherents of Azraqism participated in an armed struggle against the rulers of the Umayyad Caliphate, and they declared those who avoided this duty infidels - kafirs - and allowed their murder. Nafi ibn al-Azraq even permitted the killing of women and children of his opponents. At the same time, the Azraqites did not extend the principle of killing “apostates” to Christians and Jews, since they believed that they did not betray the teachings of the prophets Jesus and Moses.

<i>Shaitan</i> Devils in Islam

A shaitan or shaytan is an evil spirit in Islam, inciting humans and jinn to sin by whispering in their hearts. Although invisible to humans, shayatin are imagined to be ugly and grotesque creatures created from Hellfire.

Ali Shams al-Din ibn Abdallah was the 18th Tayyibi Isma'ili Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq in Yemen. He succeeded his brother al-Hasan Badr al-Din I in 1418, and held the post until his death in 1428, when he was succeeded by his nephew Idris Imad al-Din.

Adi ibn Zayd al-Ibadi al-Tamimi was a 6th-century Arab Christian poet from an Ibadi family of al-Hirah.

Anushirvan ibn Khalid ibn Muhammad Kashani, also known as Abu Nasr Sharaf al-Din, was a Persian statesman and historian, who served as the vizier of the Seljuq Empire and the Abbasid Caliphate.

Abd al-Fattah Fumani was a 17th century Persian historian from Fuman in Gilan, who wrote a history of his native province, the Tarikh-i Gilan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jalal al-Mulk Ali ibn Muhammad</span>

Jalal al-Mulk Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ammar was the ruler (qadi) of Tripoli during the First Crusade.

The Action Army, also translated as the Army of Action, was a rebellion force formed by elements of the Ottoman Army sympathetic to the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP) during the 31 March Incident, sometimes referred to as the 1909 countercoup. Mobilised in Selanik by Mahmud Shevket Pasha, it occupied Istanbul and successfully suppressed the uprising in the 31 March Incident.

The Cairo edition, or the King Fu'ād Quran or the Azhar Quran, is an edition of the Quran printed by the Amiri Press in the Bulaq district of Cairo on July 10, 1924. It is the first printed Quran to be accepted by a Muslim authority, this authority being Al-Azhar.

Fazli Chalabi Fuzulizade, commonly known as Fazli, was a 16th-century poet. He wrote in Azerbaijani, Persian, and Arabic and was the son of the major Azerbaijani poet Fuzuli. Fazli was best known for his talent in creating chronograms and riddles within his poems.

Umm al-Banin bint Abd al-Aziz was an Umayyad princess, principal wife of the Umayyad caliph al-Walid I and sister of eight Umayyad caliph Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz.

Soleyman Khan Qajar was a military commander under his maternal cousin Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, the founder of the Qajar dynasty of Iran. In 1799, Soleyman Khan and Mirza Bozorg Qa'em-Maqam were appointed as the adjutants of the crown prince Abbas Mirza. Soleyman Khan remained with him until his death in 1806.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gabriel Reynolds - Department of Theology". theology.nd.edu. University of Notre Dame. 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Gabriel Said REYNOLDS - Résidents". iea-nantes.fr (in French). Fondation Institut d'Études Avancées de Nantes. 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  3. Azaiez, Mehdi; Reynolds, Gabriel Said; Tesei, Tommaso; Zafer, Hamza M. (2016). The Qur'an Seminar Commentary: A Collaborative Study of 50 Qur'anic Passages. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.26530/oapen_626408 . ISBN   9783110445909. S2CID   164817099 . Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  4. Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2008). "Introduction: Qur'anic Studies and its Controversies". In Reynolds, Gabriel Said (ed.). The Qur'an in its Historical Context . London: Routledge. pp.  1–26. doi:10.4324/9780203939604. ISBN   978-0-415-42899-6. S2CID   160637821.
  5. Reynolds, Gabriel Said (7 August 2015). "Variant Readings: The Birmingham Qur'an in The Context of Debate on Islamic Origins" (PDF). Times Literary Supplement : 14–15. Retrieved 17 January 2021 via Academia.edu. "Among the manuscripts... discovered in 1972... of the Great Mosque of Sanaa in Yemen was a rare Qur'anic palimpsest – that is, a manuscript preserving an original Qur'an text that had been erased and written over with a new Qur'an text. This palimpsest has been analysed by... Gerd and Elisabeth Puin, by Asma Hilali of the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, and later by Behnam Sadeghi of Stanford University... What all of these scholars have discovered is remarkable: the earlier text of the Qur'an contains numerous variants to the standard consonantal text of the Qur'an."
  6. Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2018). The Qurʾān and the Bible: Text and Commentary. Translated by Qarai, Ali Quli. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0-300-18132-6. LCCN   2017952016. S2CID   211983625 . Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  7. Reynolds, Gabriel Said (2020). Allah: God in the Qurʾān. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctvxkn7q4. ISBN   978-0-300-24658-2. JSTOR   j.ctvxkn7q4. LCCN   2019947014. S2CID   226129509 . Retrieved 17 January 2021.